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The marketing team for the "Project Hail Mary" movie is really going all out! #Artemis2

It was nice scrolling through and seeing your face and thinking hey wait a second that's Katie

This picture is from 1969;

Super cool!

Reminds me of a saying from the Swedish army "If the map and the real world around you are not in agreement, follow the map!"

Because there is no inherent “up” or “down” in the universe. Those directions only make sense within the frame of reference of a planet or other celestial object, where its gravity establishes that orientation. Once you consider the whole planet from the outside, up and down become meaningless.

Yeah that’s not cool

Some of us care about recycling

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Ah! That makes sense. You can even see it curving a bit in the edges of the image when you follow it. I was thinking it was taken from outside the capsule by an outside camera. Thanks!

More Katie face! 🥰

Waxing crescent Earth

Thank you, OMG...its full of stars!

Is that the space station below them?

Hello Spain!

is that bright spot the reflection of the moon in the Mediterranean water?

haha excellent

That is so cool! Thank you for the detailed explanation!

Thanks!

Scrolls back, wow

Thanks..I've been looking..

From now on, when my drapes are open on my terribly dusty home I’m saying we’re blessed with zodiacal light. Loved this. Sharing wonder and delight is appreciated.

I love this. Part One of my latest book takes place in a near-future ice mining base in Henson crater near the lunar South Pole. From Henson, Earth, when visible, appears upside-down, just like this image!

Thank you! This is fun

Did someone say zodiacal light? SOMEONE GO GET BRIAN MAY

The Blue Marble photo (1972) was taken with a Hasselblad 500 EL, which uses 6×6 film. Low-ISO film of that size is roughly equivalent to 100–200 megapixels of resolution, while the Nikon D5 is about 20Mpx. Only recently have the best medium-format digital cameras reached the 100–200 megapixel range.

I use mine, GR8 Pictures

Katie you never miss. 🫡

much! and no post-processing ”ai” fuckery! i just think it’s really neat that it’s a decade old and still this great i didn’t mean it in a snarky way

i collect and use vintage (“vintage”) digital cameras and 3 of my favorite dslrs were made in 2007, 2008 and 2010 so this fun fact is right in my wheelhouse

I know folks were looking forward to the upgrade. This flight will be a good test.

Still fancy to me!

Another cool thing is that there are actually five planets in frame, as Saturn, Mars, and Mercury are all occulted by the Earth from this perspective. This is a rough-but-close diagram using a screenshot from Stellarium, with the blue circle indicating Earth, and red square for image frame.

Space! Space! Space!

The flerfs are going to be going crazy trying to call this fake.

Many thanks! I was wondering how they got that shot on their way to a nearly full moon ;-)

Sooo cool!

Extraordinary video.

Thank you!!

I love this. What an image! Thanks for the explanation. :) More of this content please 💚